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• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  paragraphs in this Economist interview: “I don’t want or need to disrupt ... masses yearning to learn. In support of his subversive educational ... , while giving no weight to lineage, athletic ability, state or country of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship for future engineers Chance to win $2,000

  

  ? Want to be an engineer? Then consider applying for the 2008 Future ... Chapter website (ashraeboston.org). They are awarding 14 scholarships in the ... ://ashraeboston.org/scholarship-info.html You can also apply for this scholarship if you're a first or second year

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to ... . Louis Cardinals—it was practically a requirement to live in the small town ... single moment when I regretted coming to MIT or wished I’d chosen a

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  time we also just go get food together or go to the movies, but all in ... things like going to dinner or China town. All in all, I feel like when I ... ). So just in case you don't want to watch the entire video here are a few

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room ... into casually in the kitchen or the lounge. And the lasts piled up: Last ... . Despite not having registered in advance like we were supposed to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  .2 Schwiizerdütsch to get around on a daily basis. Random things I've dearly missed: In ... , I've been settling in to my summer studio apartment, interning the 9 ... throughout the greater Zürich area. I got really lucky to be placed in one just

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  for having the chance to get to know all these weird (in the best ... without them. *At no point in time were we in danger of starving to death ... For spring break, the women's tennis team travelled to Southern

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  love to use paint as a base for mixed media things) or a new media ... as a craft) or a poet (I used to perform at poetry slams) or a food ... having creative power is something I value in whatever things I decide to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  , I still have to be back latest at home around 9 or 10. In college, you ... , "Wow, I've been in America for three months." To be honest, these three months seemed to pass by in no time at all. Between studying, traveling

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  really enjoyed the ability to participate in sports without it taking over ... to participate in college. But I still wanted to be active, and my dorm ... Despite growing up in New York, I became a Red Sox fan when I was 8

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  address what every college and university has articulated in its mission: to ... States. It will not tell the reader how to get into college or how to run a ... work, or even to identify those who will finish a four-year undergraduate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  beautiful ideals in this world. To shout from the past and into the future ... the way people practice everything from philosophy to ai or even math ... work to get grants, artists get stuck in bubbles that make it hard for

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  ’ll always have the right answer, or the right words to say. In fact, it seems ... , I envied them, or, perhaps, aspired to be them. I turned in my final ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Got Questions? I have answers.

  

  Hey guys - sorry for not blogging in so long! I've been up to all sorts of things in the past month that have distracted me from blogging. Specifically: finding a UROP for the summer (I'll be working in the Lang Lab

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  have a schedule that I stick to. I'm not one to sleep in really, so I spend some of my free time trying to get ahead in classes, etc. I try to ... participate in sports that may be brand new to you without ever having played

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  for students taking courses in D-Lab to travel over IAP or sometime ... or complicated – in fact, the best solutions to problems of these scale ... . Sounds pretty fun! Feel free to email Tiffany at tifa(at)mit.edu or get in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  Philadelphia. After a 6-hour nap, I'll wake up in Philadelphia and prepare to ... around 2 PM in Lancaster, I'll meet up with my friend Shawna, who goes to ... there, we're driving not to my house, but to my grandmother's house in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  or other, so I probably won't get a chance to do it tonight. Anyway ... piano! In a marching band. We can't really afford a marimba or ... slushiest day of the year 2007. In order to spread some love and, more

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  , almost like my innate daftness is an excuse for not being able to learn. In ... to finish filing my transfer apps or taking a semester off. I really ... this also, in part, has to do with the fact that I'm in California now. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  . Should I send in a whole new version of my application, or all new essays? No. You do not need to "improve" your application, or redo ... application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011